From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-09-18T16:29:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with extconf

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:50:53 +0900,
> Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> 
>>Doing a quick irb shows that String doesn't seem to *have* an
>>lstrip! method (nor lstrip, rstrip, rstrip!).  However, those
>>methods exist according to my copy of ri from /\ndy's 1.8.0
>>Windows installer.
> 
> 
> Don't you use ruby 1.6 for extconf.rb?  Ruby 1.8 contains zlib.

That's what I just discovered!  The tar file I downloaded contained 1.6.8, not 1.8.0.  It was a stable snapshot that I got to by following the "Get Ruby Now!" link on the home page.  That took me to a page that had links entitled "Ruby version 1.8.0 source (stable release)" and "Stable snapshot" ... amongst others.

Maybe I'm just losing my mind :-(.

Anyway, I just used the first link and I seem to have the real 1.8.0 source tarball, so I'll give that a go.

Sorry for the confusion.

Harry O.